I think there's a misunderstanding about "selecting" the member. If I read Radek correctly, the program is to pick out a name that does ~not~ refer to an already existing member, and use that for the output. That's not hard; the member name will be "<x><yymmdd><n>" where <x> is a constant, <yymmdd> is today's date and <n> is some character that the program will increment until it finds a name that isn't already being used.
That can be a subroutine, to be called and used for output after the output has been prepared. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The modern state, no matter how "liberal" or "democratic," is a gigantic mass. It isn't necessarily an improvement over small tribes, from which the individual can at least hope to escape. Better a checkered world than a monolithic one. -Joseph Sobran */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Hobart Spitz Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 21:19 You have these options: 1 - Select the member manually, and invoke your REXX edit macro. 2 - Write another module the invokes the edit service in the library and member, and runs the edit macro. 3 - Write one dual mode module. I do not recommend this. Edit commands are only valid in REXX EXECs that have issued ADDRESS ISREDIT MACRO which establishes the edit macro environment. I would Google "ispf edit macro example". --- On Monday, February 6, 2023, Radoslaw Skorupka < [email protected]> wrote: > To be honest ISPF & REXX is not my strong point. > > I need the following: > From PDS(E) member list I type my CMD1, hit ENTER - to start the REXX > script. > The script Select new member (name generated from date+consecutive > character), then issue some edit commands, like COPY TEMPLATE to copy > some text from the TEMPLATE member. > > Any clue? > Or some similar script to learn by example? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
